Button.



J. G. BREITENSTEIN.

BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED MAE. 16, 1908.

, 899,824, Y Patented sept.29,1908.

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l UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

.TULIUS G. BREITENSTEIN, OF CHICAGO,V ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO INDEPENDENT BUTTON & MACHINE COMPANY, lOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION.

the accompanying BUTTON.

i Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed March 16, 1908. Serial No. 421,528.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs G. BREITEN- STEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to drawings, forming `a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a button of improved construction in respect to the means for retaining the'cloth tuft.

It consists of the elements and features of construction shown and described as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a diametric section of a button involving this invention, shown on a greatly enlarged scale, particularly as to the thickness of the parts. Fig. 2 is a partial diametric section of the full construction, having lcertain elements broken away in part in order to disclose features which they would conceal. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the tuft-retaining disk which characterizes thisinvention.

A well known and now popularform of button is made with a shell at the back of hard rubber, Celluloid, bone, vegetable ivory or like hardmaterial, which is in the form of a shallow cup extending up around the margin of the button and forming the periphery for taking the wear and protecting the cloth face whichis encompassed by the marginal wall of this cup-shaped back. The button is substantially complete in formation without this shell, except that for retaining the shell the customary metal collet, which would form the back of the button in the absence of the shell, has its inner circumference provided with projections which extend through the central aperture of the shell for clenching on to the back of the latter to retain it. In forming these clenching projections of the collet, the inner circumference of the latter becomes a folded edge, without any capacity for retaining the tuft which readily slips around such. folded edgefso that the tuft in this style of button is liable to be easily pulled out in the absence of some special means for retaining it. The present invention supplies this means, consisting in a tuftretaining annular disk lodged back of the collet, but being formed with sharply cut edge,

' side toward the which is preferably also slightly burred at the cloth disk for forming the tuft which is lodged back of the tuft-retaining annulus so that the tuft is drawn through the aperture which has the sharply cut or burred (edge such as would unavoidably result from making the annular disk in any die and press) instead of being drawn over the smooth folded edge of the collet.

In the drawings, A is the hard rubber, celluloid or bone shell applied at the back of the button and having its flange, A1, extending up around the periphery for guarding the cloth face.

B is the collet having the clenching teeth or fingers, B1, extending from its inner circumference and clenched around the inner circumference of the shell, A, on to the back side in the annular rabbet, a, formed for that purpose.

C is the cap and D the cloth face covering the cap and engaged between the flanges of the cap and collet respectively in the customary manner.

E is the cloth tuft disk whose center portion forms the tuft, E1, F the pasteboard iiller back of the disk, E, in the collet, and G is the tuft-retainer, -an annular metal disk lodged in the collet between the same and the cloth disk, E having its inner circumference burred, as seen at G1, the bur being turned inward or toward the cloth disk, which, being tucked through the central aperture of the retainer, folds over the burred edge, G1, in order to protrude through the collet and the shell, A.

I claim:-

l. In a button having a centrally apertured back shell, a collet folded at its inner circumference to form means extending through the aperture of the shell for engaging the same, in combination with a tuft disk having its central portion forming the tuft extending through the central aperture of the collet, and an annular tuft-retaining disk lodged between the tuft disk inner circumference about its central aperture burred on the side toward the tuft disk.

2. In a button having a centrally apertured Aback shell, a collet folded'at its inner circumference to form means extending through the aperture of the shell for engaging the same, in combination with a tuft disk having` its central portion forming the tuit my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 26th dey ol" extending through the central aperture of December, A. D. 1907.

the collet, and an annular tuft-retainino disl f 1 f Y lodged between the tuit disk and the boollet JULlUS G' BREU ILNS MAN .5 having a sharply out edge at its inner oirouni- Witnesses:

ference on the side toward the tuft disk. M. GERTRUDE ADY,

In testimony Whereo'l', have hereunto set CHAS. S. BURTON. 

